Controversial gourmet comics

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a long-running gourmet comic called "Oishinbo" in the editions for release on April 28 (R), 2014, and on May 19 (L), 2014, of the Big Comic Spirits, a weekly Japanese comic magazine, that was released. After a wave of criticism over depictions of the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in the comic in the edition released on April 28, Shogakukan Inc., the publisher of the magazine, accepted the criticism in the edition released on May 19.

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